I was thinking Salem - though there were obviously witch hunts and accusations of that sort throughout the history of Abrahamic religion, whether recorded or not.
The inquisition is certainly an example of bad religious ideas being put into practice, but it's more complex as which specific ideas were being used there. It's not like there's a passage in the bible that says, "if X doesn't conform to doctrine, there's this thing called a thumbscrew you can use". So for the purposes of the example, the above is more useful.
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